Quotes About Dedication

I tend to be a person who, when I get interested in something, I get obsessed by it... What happens to me is that I will fall in love with a particular ingredient or a particular dish... Once I make the decision that something has intrigued me enough to draw me in, there is no end to it.

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.

I'm obsessed with my parents.

As a kid, I was obsessed with Meryl Streep, and I still am.

Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.

My parents were obsessed with my education.

I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.

Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.

What you want, as a filmmaker, is to be obsessed with and fall in love with the material.

I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.

I'm obsessed with 'Rocky.' We went 13 times to the theater.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

I've had a lifelong passion, and really obsession, with professional wrestling since I was a very small kid.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.

Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsession to get the most from this short life.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.